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days 81-84 {and now it’s time to rest}

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It’s funny – as a school kid, a college kid, a working adult (pretty much my entire life) Monday was always a day to dread. The hectic return to real life after a lazy weekend (sleeping til 10? yes, please!). But as a mom it’s kind of the opposite. Not that I don’t look forward to the weekends, I do. It’s just that the weekends tend to be the crazy part of my week. All sorts of spontaneity and nap-skipping and not a lot of picking up. By the time Sunday night rolls around it’s all I can do to collapse in a heap on the couch after the kids’ bedtime. But Mondays now are always so restful. Pick up the house, open the windows, do some laundry. A fresh start to the orderly and predictable part of our week. Is it weird to love Mondays?

PS – this set includes a vertical shot, I think maybe the first one all year. I find myself only wanting to shoot horizontally because I prefer the way that they look on a screen. The verticals don’t fit as well. How’s that for a silly reason not to shoot vertically? This one shot is a teeny tiny step outside my safe horizontal comfort zone (if Tara can do it on instagram I can do it here)

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days 81-84 {and now it’s time to rest}

days 77-80 {what a week}

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What a busy week! It’s been a bit of everything – so far we’ve had a doctor’s visit (yet another ear infection, we’re getting awfully close to ear tube territory) grandma in town, car accident (not me, my mom – and thank goodness she’s ok!) and a sleepover. It’s been a big one and let’s just say I’m glad it’s almost the weekend. Hopefully things will settle down a bit in the next few days. On an unrelated note – day 80! Can you believe it? I haven’t actually finished a proejct 365 since 2008 (pre-kids if you hadn’t noticed the correlation) so I’m excited to have made it this far!

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days 77-80 {what a week}

days 64-74 {playing catch-up}

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Eek! I am sorry to leave my poor project 365 hanging with no posts for so long! In case you hadn’t figured it out already (but come on, it’s pretty obvious) I am a photographer. I am also a very last-minute decision maker and so at the last minute last week I decided that I wanted to head to Las Vegas for a photography conference. I haven’t actually been to this particular conference since before I had kids (I know, like 100 million years ago!) but it’s been a long time since I did anything really just to focus on myself and my business… so I went! And being in frantic trip-preparation mode and then actually being *on* the trip meant that I didn’t get around to posting my daily photos. I also didn’t take a single photo with my actual camera the entire time that I was in Las Vegas (can you believe it?!) so there are a few iphone shots thrown in as well.

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And now back to your regularly scheduled programming…

days 64-74 {playing catch-up}

day 63 {she sleeps}

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There are some parts of parenting that are tiresome from the very first time they happen (making school lunches!) – and then there are others that no matter how many times you are witness to them, they just simply cannot get old. I could watch my sleeping babies for the rest of my life and die a happy woman. There is something so awe-inspiring in a sleeping child – a little bit of heaven on earth.

day 63 {she sleeps}

day 62 {insta-sky}

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I remember when I was in high school, the teacher who taught my photography class gave us a long lecture about what digital cameras were, and why they would never become a tool of professional photographers. These days I carry a camera with me in my pocket everywhere I go, and I instantly share my images with hundreds of people at once. It’s a crazy world we’re living in, isn’t it? This image is straight from my iphone, cropped and watermarked only – no editing or sharpening. Amazing what a few years and a little bit of technological advancement will do.

day 62 {insta-sky}

February Skies – an instagram project 365

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March already! I can’t believe how fast this year is already flying by. Maybe it’s the fact that it was in the 80s today or maybe it’s all of the blossoms on our fruit trees in the backyard, but I feel like we have fast-forwarded squarely into the middle of spring (maybe even summer?)

I was a little bit worried when I started my #365daysofsky project on instagram that I’d have trouble taking a photo every single day without repeating myself, but it seems as thought I needn’t have worried. Even on bright blue days there’s always a sunset, and it’s fun to find new ways to frame the sky. It’s such an amazing thing, isn’t it? It’s always in motion and the clouds on one day are never the same as the next. I’ve found that with the exception of extremely rainy days (where it’s hard to get outside without getting my iphone all wet) there really hasn’t been a single day that I wasn’t excited to go out and see what the sky had in store for me.

So without further ado, here is the collection of all of my February sky shots – I don’t put them together until the very end of the month so seeing them all in one spot is a fun surprise. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of our beautiful California skies.

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This post is the second in a set of monthly recaps of my instagram daily sky series. If you missed the first month, check out January skies right here.

February Skies – an instagram project 365

day 61 {March of Dimes}

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Today I went to help my sister with some of the work she’s doing for the March of Dimes’ march for babies in San Diego – she’s volunteered to hold informational meetings for people who are starting walking teams for this year’s event. Allison is an amazing walking team captain and I am so proud of the work that she’s done raising money for the March of Dimes over the last few years. She’s set up a facebook page for this year’s walk and also an online auction where you can bid on some wonderful items – including a portrait session by yours truly.

day 61 {March of Dimes}